Annette Schavan

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Full Name	Annette Schavan
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jun 10, 1955(1955-06-10)
Age	69
Birthplace	Kuchen
Country	Germany
Birth City	Baden-Württemberg
Horoscope	Gemini

Annette Schavan Biography

Annette Schavan is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 10, 1955 in Kuchen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Annette Schavan (help *info ) (born 10 June 1955) is a German politician in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She served as an official of the Federal Minister for Education and Research in the government of Angela Merkel’s Chancellor from 2005 until 2013 in which time she resigned after the denial of her doctorate for plagiarism. From 2014 to 2018, she was her German ambassador for the Holy See. In April of 2018 she served as the first German Embassy of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

under the direction of the party’s chairman Angela Merkel, Schavan was elected vice-chairwoman of CDU in November 2006. CDU in November of 2006 This time, she was elected alongside Minister-Presidents Roland Koch, Jurgen Ruttgers and Christian Wulff.

Amid the plagiarism scandal that led to the resignation of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg as Minister of Defence of Germany on 1 March 2011, Schavan was quoted in Der Spiegel as saying that “intellectual theft is not a small thing”. In 2012, a blogger with the pseudonym Robert Schmidt who is a member of the research-network VroniPlag Wiki alleged he had found plagiarism in Schavan’s PhD thesis, entitled “Character and conscience – Studies on the conditions, necessities, and demands on the development of conscience in the present day.” The University of Düsseldorf conducted an investigation into the plagiarism charge. Investigators found paraphrasing of secondary literature without naming the source in over 60 cases in the dissertation and thereby on 5 February 2013 revoked her doctorate degree because of “systematic and premeditated” deception.

On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the diplomatic relations between German and India, Schavan participated in the first joint cabinet meeting of the two countries’ governments in Delhi in May 2011.

Schavan was the Federal minister of Education from 2005 until February 2013. In the aftermath of the federal elections in 2009 she was part of the CDU/CSU team that was involved in talks with FDP to reach a coalition deal. She headed the delegation of her party in the working group for policies on education and research; as co-chair of that group was Andreas Pinkwart. FDP included Andreas Pinkwart.

Annette Schavan Net Worth

Annette Schavan is one of the richest Politician from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Annette Schavan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

From 1995 to 2005, Schavan was the State Minister for Cultural Affairs, Youth, and Sports for the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg during the government of successive minister-presidents Erwin Teufel and Gunther Oettinger. In that time she was responsible for the education of children in Baden-Wurttemberg. A controversy that was rumbled in this period was that an Muslim teacher was barred from wearing a head scarf at the school because it was considered to be an act of worship, but simultaneously permitting Catholic nuns to dress in their traditional attire. The reasoning was that the customs of monks and nuns serve been ordained for official purposes, whereas an official Muslim head scarf is not required.

Schavan was thought to be potential Christian Democratic candidate for Germany’s presidency in 2004, however Horst Kohler was chosen and was elected instead. The year 2005 saw her tried to replace Erwin Teufel as Minister- President of Baden-Wurttemberg however her bid was thwarted by her opponent Gunther Oettinger at the time of internal election for the CDU. Oettinger’s victory in the referendum – 60.6 percent votes versus 39.4 percentage for Schavan was widely viewed as a setback for Teufel who had endorsed Schavan for his ideal successor.

In 2010, Schavan led efforts to enlist imams educated at German universities to improve the integration of young Muslims. Under a plan devised by the German Council of Science and Humanities, imams were to be trained at two or three German universities, in accordance with the German curriculum. In addition to theology, the new preachers would also study education and community organizing. In a competition, the universities of Tübingen, Münster and Osnabrück were selected for the program.

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Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2018, Schavan publicly endorsed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Angela Merkel as the party’s chair.

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